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CHAIR Filed Aug. 9, 193a Patented July 21, 1942 CHAIR Karl Michaelis, The Hague, Netherlands, assignor to Thomas V. Michaelis, New York, N. Y.

Application August 9, 1938, Serial No. 223,866 In Germany August 28, 1935 1 Claim.

My invention relates to chairs and other body supporting furniture.

It has particular reference to chairs having a back, a seat and a front extension, all forming part of a wood panel curved S-fashion, the chairs to be described further below are supported on four legs, the twice curved panel being fixed to the fore legs by means of its front extension. In the chairs according to this invention the great rigidity in transverse direction imparted to comparatively thin panels by bending is utilized for the purpose of simplifying the construction of lowering the cost of production of chairs. For a thin wood panel, owing to this increase in rigidity, enables the customary seat frame, which forms the connection between the legs to be dispensed with partly or altogether, since the bent sheet forms a connection of great strength and rigidity between the legs on opposite sides of the chair.

In the drawing afiixed to this specification and forming part thereof, several embodiments of my invention are illustrated diagrammatically by way of example.

In the drawing Fig. 1 is a side elevation of an easy-chair, in which the twice curved panel is inserted between and supported by two U-shaped rods forming two pairs of legs and arm rests.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of an easy-chair, in 1 which separate rear legs are fixed to the underside of the seat portion of the twice curved panel.

Referring to the drawing and first to Fig. 1, I is the seat portion, 2 the upwardly extending back portion and 3 the downwardly directed front extension of a panel curved S-fashion, preferably a plywood panel, with rearwardly converging sides and 4 are arm rests forming the middle parts of strong rods, for instance wooden rods, bent into U-shape, the ends of which form the fore and rear legs 5 and 6, respectively. The panel is fixed by means of screws to the rear sides of the fore legs, the lower part of the back is fixed to a cross bar I connecting the rear legs.

In this chair the part 3 of the panel forms the sole connection between the front legs and together with the cross bar I replaces a seat frame, so that the supporting structure of the chair only consists of the panel, the two pairs of legs and the cross bar.

The easy-chair of Fig. 2 shows the twice curved panel I, 2, 3 fixed by its downwardly extending part 3 to the rear sides of the fore legs 22, which form parts of rods which are likewise bent S-fashion, the middle parts 23 forming arm rests fixed to and bracing the back rest 2. Curved rear legs 24 extending into parallel relation with the seat I are fixed to the underside of the seat. Bracing strips 25 may connect the fore and rear legs in order to prevent them from spreading.

I wish it to be understood that the embodiments of this invention illustrated in the drawing are mere examples and that the elements constituting these chairs can be exchanged and replaced by similar elements, for various modi fications within the scope of the appended claims of the details of construction and design shown and described will occur to a person skilled in the art.

The term chair used in the claim is understood as including every kind of body supporting furniture.

I claim:

A chair comprising in combination, a wood panel curved S-fashion, its generally horizontal middle part forming a seat, its ascending part a back-rest, and a separate pair of connected legs on each side of and fixed to said panel in direct contact with the front surface of the descending part, which part forms the sole connection between the front legs.

KARL MICHAELIS. 

